Am I doing something wrong? What's with the XP Deus and all of the bottlecaps I dig at trashy parks? At one of our heavily hunted parks here in the Sacramento area, my friends with Minelabs have been killing it, I usually dig 20-30 bottlebaps to 1-2 good targets in the worst areas. Don't get me wrong though, I have found plenty of great finds with it since I bought it last year but I will get to that a little later in this post. I have also heard of alot of people jumping ship from the XP to the Racer as of late. I recently also have gotten great deals on 1st an Etrac and about 3-4 weeks ago just got a Ctx-3030 for $1300.
One of my 1st great finds with the Deus was a very nice ladies 1 3/4 ct 18kt gold ring that I took in to one of the local jewelry stores that they said they would sell for 7500. and I had made a few more gold ring finds and a nice 27 gr. gold bracelet with it as well but I had not found a piece of silver until about 3 months ago. That was when I got to hit a school that was redone from the playground to the back yard. I probably found 6-8 silvers, 3-4 buffalos, 2 or three War nickels, as well as several wheat pennies. Nothing was at extreem depths though. Then came some heavily hunted parks, and my friend mascard1 on some of the forums and some of his Minelab friends, kept hitting the deep silvers thyat I didn't seem to find. So after watching him dig yet another silver, made him put it back in the hole (which he didn't want to do I might add) so I could go over the target and then I realized that I was not digging those iffy targets that barely sounded off. My 1st good find after that was a 1912 V nickel, a 1919 s wheat penny, and a 1919 mercury dime in the same hole, although I think I damaged all 3 coins. I dug that hole for 40-45 minutes. The 1st 3 inches were hard but nothing like the last 3-4, which was like trying to dig through concrete. 1st I dug with my predator shovel for the 1st 3-4 inches, then went to my lesche digger, then back and forth between the two. When I could finally hear them with my garrett pp, I tried to go slow and widen my hole but every try pounding down just seemed to bounce off the ground and not get any deeper. Long story short, I nicked the penny and the merc near the edges and put a big crater right in the middle of the head on the V nickel. I was bummed about that. But my friend said so what, at least you found silver. He has over 100 silvers for the year. Not too long after that I started finding some silvers here and there. In the past 2 months I have 2 Barber dimes found and a few more silver coins and a silver and gold Grim Reaper pendant found with the Deus.
Back to the trashy park though, our club has a weekly hunt where several of us get together and go to different schools or parks and we went back to that same difficult park that was like digging through concrete. Anyway, I decided to try using the 3030 and ended up finding 1 59 roosevelt dime, a 42 mercury dime, a 41 washington quarter, a small silver ring, and a fairly small silver st christopher pendant, but I dug no bottlecaps. I did dig a few screw caps, maybe 6 or so and a few rusted nails, but I dig some of those with the Deus as well. I almost forgot to add, There were probably 11 or 12 of us at this park , there were no other XP's or Minelabs. Some of these hunters are pretty good with their detectors and there were only 2 small silver rings found and 1 gold plated tungston ring found by the others. Using that 3030 on that hunt opened my eyes. But it is not the endall detector either. I know it has shortcomings as well.
HOW CAN I GET AWAY FROM FINDING ALL OF THESE STUPID BOTTLECAPS?
My other question would be: Why are lots of people jumping ship from the Deus? I think I hear they go to the Racer or something like that. I am not thinking of selling my Deus, I have made lots of great finds with it, but...
One of my 1st great finds with the Deus was a very nice ladies 1 3/4 ct 18kt gold ring that I took in to one of the local jewelry stores that they said they would sell for 7500. and I had made a few more gold ring finds and a nice 27 gr. gold bracelet with it as well but I had not found a piece of silver until about 3 months ago. That was when I got to hit a school that was redone from the playground to the back yard. I probably found 6-8 silvers, 3-4 buffalos, 2 or three War nickels, as well as several wheat pennies. Nothing was at extreem depths though. Then came some heavily hunted parks, and my friend mascard1 on some of the forums and some of his Minelab friends, kept hitting the deep silvers thyat I didn't seem to find. So after watching him dig yet another silver, made him put it back in the hole (which he didn't want to do I might add) so I could go over the target and then I realized that I was not digging those iffy targets that barely sounded off. My 1st good find after that was a 1912 V nickel, a 1919 s wheat penny, and a 1919 mercury dime in the same hole, although I think I damaged all 3 coins. I dug that hole for 40-45 minutes. The 1st 3 inches were hard but nothing like the last 3-4, which was like trying to dig through concrete. 1st I dug with my predator shovel for the 1st 3-4 inches, then went to my lesche digger, then back and forth between the two. When I could finally hear them with my garrett pp, I tried to go slow and widen my hole but every try pounding down just seemed to bounce off the ground and not get any deeper. Long story short, I nicked the penny and the merc near the edges and put a big crater right in the middle of the head on the V nickel. I was bummed about that. But my friend said so what, at least you found silver. He has over 100 silvers for the year. Not too long after that I started finding some silvers here and there. In the past 2 months I have 2 Barber dimes found and a few more silver coins and a silver and gold Grim Reaper pendant found with the Deus.
Back to the trashy park though, our club has a weekly hunt where several of us get together and go to different schools or parks and we went back to that same difficult park that was like digging through concrete. Anyway, I decided to try using the 3030 and ended up finding 1 59 roosevelt dime, a 42 mercury dime, a 41 washington quarter, a small silver ring, and a fairly small silver st christopher pendant, but I dug no bottlecaps. I did dig a few screw caps, maybe 6 or so and a few rusted nails, but I dig some of those with the Deus as well. I almost forgot to add, There were probably 11 or 12 of us at this park , there were no other XP's or Minelabs. Some of these hunters are pretty good with their detectors and there were only 2 small silver rings found and 1 gold plated tungston ring found by the others. Using that 3030 on that hunt opened my eyes. But it is not the endall detector either. I know it has shortcomings as well.
HOW CAN I GET AWAY FROM FINDING ALL OF THESE STUPID BOTTLECAPS?
My other question would be: Why are lots of people jumping ship from the Deus? I think I hear they go to the Racer or something like that. I am not thinking of selling my Deus, I have made lots of great finds with it, but...
